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#MacroPhotography

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Now *that's* what I call a defensive posture 🙀

Or should that be posterior? 🤪

The spiky arse on this little fly is remarkable – it's a Tachina ferox, also known as Nowickia ferox.

In German, it's a Schwarzfühler Borstenfliege or roughly "black antenna bristle fly".

It was flying around too quickly to get a definitive single shot, but between the four photos, you'll get the idea 🤷‍♂️

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No time earlier in the day & very little light left in the evening, so not much chance to see who was around in the garden 🤷‍♂️

But revisiting a subject from ten days ago or so, here's a not very sharp picture of a ferruginous bee-grabber fly (Sicus ferrugineus) from above.

The sprinkling of small pink flowers on its head somehow conjures up a bridesmaid ... or maybe that's just me 😬✌️

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I finally started uploading some of my photos to wikipedia as CC-by-SA. Makes it so much easier to find them again when I need them.

This is a star worm from the family Rhagopthalmidae. It looks like a tiny subway train crawling on the forest floor.

Took this with my cheap 25mm 7Artisans manual lens, because the wide apeture could capture the dim bioluminescence. I had a fill light to the right so there is a glimpse of what the animal actually looks like.
#macrophotography #insects

The agave weevil (Scyphophorus acupunctatus) is big, relative to most weevils. The larvae--called nixtamal worms--are evidently big enough to eat. What better way to get rid of your agave crop's pests than to eat them! There's a fascinating story about nixtamal worms here:
eater.com/23806002/agave-worms

I found this one crossing the hiking trail at Black Mesa State Park in far, far western Oklahoma. The #biodiversity at this park was stunning.

Primus inter pares 🙂👍

My favourite butterfly of the summer so far – a common blue (Polyommatus icarus) in the garden today 🦋

The black & white fringed blue topside means it's a male – the females have a range of browns & blues, with orange edge spots. The underside is pretty as well.

Pictures aren't super-sharp – I was struggling to keep my footing in a steep location, trying to get closer 😬

#Photography 📷
#BugOfTheDay 🪰
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🕸️
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲